March 8–11, 2018 at the Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center. Work by Anna Sokolow that had not been seen for several decades. The program included Poem, Moods, Preludes, Dreams, and Leni Wylliams’ Sweet in the Morning.
March 12-23 (Humphrey/Limon Dance Intensive) and May 2-June 30 (Anna Sokolow Workshop and Showcase). Jim May will teach at the Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center in Philadelphia.
April 20-23, Rome. Jim May will teach a Sokolow repertory workshop, culminating in a performance.
Press release: The SOKOLOW THEATRE/DANCE ENSEMBLE with guests JENNIFER CONLEY and CLARENCE BROOKS. Program includes Sokolow’s Moods, not performed since the late 1970’s.
The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, the only New York modern dance company dedicated to the work of the late Anna Sokolow, has undergone a change in artistic directorship to a new generation of dancers with deep experience in the work of the iconoclastic choreographer.
Set to piano music by Rachmaninoff, Homage is a portrait of the turbulent inner life of Edgar Allan Poe as told through his poems, including “Alone,” “The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Annabelle Lee,” and “A Dream Within a Dream.”
March 8–11 at the Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn . We will perform Anna Sokolow’s works Dreams, Preludes, Poem (performed by guest artist Jennifer Conley) and a re-discovered work from 1975, Moods. Guest artist Clarence Brooks will perform Sweet in the Morning by Leni Wylliams.
A suite of evocative, timeless portraits set to Berg’s exquisite string quartet. Two solos for men, two solos for women, one duet for a man and woman, and a women’s quartet.
We are honored to be joined by three special guest artists for “Moods and Dreams,” March 8–11 at the Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn: Clarence Brooks, Jennifer Conley, and David Glista.
An embodiment of the elegant joy and restrained sensuality of Gershwin’s piano music.
